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7393134 Parking meter  
A parking meter includes a microcontroller and a timer coupled with a microcontroller. A mechanism for accepting payment by coin, credit card or both is coupled with the microcontroller for...
7258220 Token purchasing device  
A token purchasing device that can automatically change the number of tokens purchased for a given price based on time, date, and day of the week information. The token purchasing device includes a...
7225911 Bill handling machine  
A bill handling machine comprises a storing box for storing bills of plurality of different categories together, an instruction input unit for receiving a recovery instruction to recover bills...
7085727 Movie rental and notification system  
An automated movie rental and notification system includes a computer having a movie database containing hold and reservation lists and movie records. The system receives rental requests, each...
7029167 Parking meter  
A parking meter includes a microcontroller and a timer coupled with a microcontroller. A mechanism for accepting payment by coin, credit card or both is coupled with the microcontroller for...
7025258 Ball bearing actuation mechanism  
A ball bearing actuation mechanism includes a circular gauge wheel rotatably mounted in an interior chamber of a housing below an inlet passage and adjacent to outlet and overflow discharge...
6902105 Negotiable instrument processing device, negotiable instrument processing method and negotiable instrument processing system  
The size of image data for a check or other negotiable instrument used for electronically clearing payments made by such negotiable instruments is reduced. A scanning process setup command received...
6874654 Apparatus for exchanging bobbins  
An apparatus for dispensing a fully threaded bobbin to an operator upon the depositing of an empty bobbin into the apparatus. The apparatus comprises a housing defining a storage compartment for...
6874612 Media dispenser for vending machines  
Variably printed media units from an uninterrupted supply are dispensed from vending machines in association with the dispensing of products or services from the machines. The media units, which...
6747575 Parking meter smart housing with electronic memory  
The invention is directed to an electronic parking meter and a method of configuring an electronic parking meter. In addition to a meter housing and an electronic metering mechanism within the...
6644455 Rental system, machine and method for providing rental items  
A rental system contains a plurality of rental digital cameras, and comprises a rental-item providing machine which provides users with digital cameras, respectively, and a management center which...
6634481 Inventory control system and method  
An inventory control device and method for dispensing merchandise units. The device includes a structure defining one or more storage compartments, and actuating mechanism, and a metering...
6629591 Smart token  
A token for use in a cashless transaction involving an electronic device includes a token body having a coin shape. The token has a digital circuit embedded within the token body and a memory...
6384717 Bicycle rental and security system  
An unattended bicycle rental and security system, utilizing bi-directional communications with data verification between the individual bicycles and the system is provided which is equipped with an...
6309098 Contactless-IC-card receive and read-write mechanism for an on-street parking meter  
A contactless-smart-IC-card receive and read-write mechanism for an on-street parking meter. The mechanism includes a nested cartridge set consisting of a card read-write unit and a card receiver....
6260757 Automatic cashier machine  
An apparatus for receiving tokens and dispensing cash. A recognition device recognizes a denomination of a token and a source of a token, wherein the token is not government-issued legal tender. A...
6250451 Shopping cart rental system  
A shopping cart rental system for renting shopping carts and encouraging returning of shopping carts to designated areas. The shopping cart rental system includes a plurality of rental assemblies....
6142283 Cart management system  
A cart management apparatus for retaining and vending carts such as luggage carts, shopping carts, and strollers, includes a retaining rail for receiving cart keys disposed on the carts, a...
6125985 Cart management system  
A cart management apparatus for retaining and vending carts such as luggage carts, shopping carts, and strollers, includes a retaining rail for receiving cart keys disposed on the carts, a...
D430119 Touch and hold connector strip for an electronic token  
6104299 Device for monitoring pollution caused by motor vehicles in an urban area  
Apparatus for monitoring pollution generated by motor vehicles in an urban area, said area being equipped with a plurality of items of street furniture, each of which is provided with data...
5934439 Automatic commercial article renting system  
An automatic renting apparatus performs on-line trade utilizing a credit card, which includes a processing mechanism for processing a rented article not returned after expiration of a returning...
5929426 Magnetic card sensor for sensing presence of a card having a magnetic stripe and thickness complying with ISO standard  
A card sensor to operate the entry shutter (120) of an ATM 50 as a magnetic sensor (118) in a well (116) on the lower surface of an entry slot (110). A pair of inverted U-shaped springs (134)...
5917407 Unattended automated bicycle rental station  
An unattended, automated bicycle rental system utilizes a bicycle rental station having a locking bicycle rack and a control tower. The bicycle rack has an inventory of rental bicycles of non...
5888046 Machine for collecting used cups  
The machine for collecting used cups enables collection of the cups in a container (2) in such a way as to reduce empty spaces between cups and thus better to utilize the volume of the container...
5737418 Encryption of bill validation data  
A method for encrypting bill validation data generated by a bill validator is disclosed. Such data includes an inserted bill's denomination and country of origin as determined by sensors in the...
5589812 Personal meter timing device  
A portable timing device designed for use in conjunction with metered machinery, the device contained within a compact case with a clip on the back side, allowing the device to be fastened to an...
5572004 Method for paying for services and/or goods and apparatus for carrying out the method  
In a method for payment for services and/or goods, an apparatus with a data terminal device for reading and changing an amount value in a credit balance carrier and a security module provided with...
5555497 Charitable contribution centralization system and apparatus  
A multiplicity of charitable collection stations are provided with selectors for choosing the charity to which a contribution is destined, a change maker for issuing change if desired, a display...
5546303 Method of and system for correlating charitable contributions  
A central office correlates charitable contributions made at vending stations in food service establishments which issue information carriers in return for charitable contributions which are...
5442348 Computerized parking meter  
A computerized parking meter uses an ultrasonic transducer to precisely measure the distance to a parked vehicle and to reset the parking meter to zero when the vehicle leaves. The computerized...
5407050 Article control system  
An article control system has an article stand on which articles on which articles are placed. An article monitor apparatus monitors the entry and exit of articles to and from the article stand....
5346048 Apparatus for collecting articles  
An apparatus for collecting articles is housed in a parallelepipedic casing, on the front panel of which is arranged a display part of a playing part. An article-return part with an...
5313393 Inventory control system for automatic dispensing  
Apparatus for controlling dissemination of garments. First and second rotatable cassettes are provided, one of which is used to store clean garments, the other of which serves as a depository for...
5273149 Reverse vending machine with rotary-bristle-drive scanning station  
A system, such as a reverse vending machine, for handling redeemable beverage containers of the type carrying side-borne, optically readable information codes. Featured in the machine specifically...
5131516 Parking ticket dispenser  
A parking ticket dispenser of the type to dispense a parking ticket upon payment of a required fee is provided. The parking meter includes a substantially rectangular shaped housing mounted on a...
5088586 Automatic renting apparatus  
An automatic renting apparatus is for automatically renting rental articles and restoring returned rental articles. The automatic renting apparatus stores information concerning rental articles...
5085308 Apparatus for collecting articles  
An apparatus for collecting articles is housed in a parallelepipedic casing, on the front panel of which is arranged a display part of a playing part. An article-return part with an...
4995498 Rental and vending machine, particularly for video cassettes, and cassette case for video cassettes  
A hiring and vending slot-machine, in particular for video cassettes, has a cupboard-like housing, two superimposed storage compartments arranged within the housing for the boxes containing the...
4969549 Data-storing tokens and apparatus for handling data-storing tokens and coins  
Apparatus for handling coins and tokens comprises a coin validator (4) arranged to detect whether a received item is one of several different coin denominations or a data-storing token, and...
4926996 Two way communication token interrogation apparatus  
A token handling device transmits, using an electromagnetic carrier, data, clock pulses and power to a token. The token transmits data by varying the degree of absorption of the carrier in...
4915205 Apparatus for dispensing and receiving rented articles  
Machine for automatic rental of video cassettes. Cassettes are stored in a drum like magazine (32) and are made available at a dispensing slot (20, 22) after a user has identified himself by...
4903815 Automatic vending machine and system for dispensing articles  
An article gripper is moved by a robotic transporter in two perpendicular directions within a transport plane between a reference location and ID code reading locations aligned with an access port...
4893727 Automated retail service delivery system  
An automated delivery system includes a unitary wheel assembly having a plurality of horizontally disposed tiers each supporting a plurality of radially extending product bins. Electronic control...
4884504 Method for printing of quasi random number tables on cylindrical objects  
A method for printing quasi-random number tables on cylindrical objects. A quasi random number printing unit is inserted in a blanket cylinder of an object decorator press. A printing plate...
4884212 Apparatus and method for using unique charge cards dispensed from a vending machine  
A dispensing machine is accessed repeatedly by a card issued by the machine. The machine comprises storage bins for holding and dispensing a plurality of products. A memory unit is included for...
4860876 Article vending machine employing unique robotic arm and the robotic arm employed therein  
A vending machine for articles, such as videotape cassettes, includes a rotatable turret having article-retaining compartments in which the articles to be dispensed are retained, and a vertically...
4858743 Vending machine and method for automatic vending and returning of merchandise, particularly video cassette tapes  
An apparatus for and method of automatically vending merchandise to a patron, with the apparatus including display devices and input devices for interaction with the patron. At least one motor is...
4809837 Control device for a vending machine and gift certificate for use thereon  
This gift certificate has information recorded thereon for identifying a total face value vendible by the gift certificate and a predetermined base amount equal to or smaller than the total face...
4727975 Use-control system  
The invention concerns a system for the unsupervised control of the use of lockers or the like in bath houses, reading rooms, hotels or the like in which the locker doors are provided with a...
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